Re: [squid-users] Long running squid proxy slows way down

From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar_at_fantomas.sk>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:54:29 +0200

On 24.04.09 10:36, Seann Clark wrote:
> I am looking for ideas on ways to avoid this, as the tuning guides I
> have found lead me all over the place. What I am seeing is over time the
> cache starts to slow down from being lightning fast to being ok, to it
> taking 1-3 minutes to decide to load, and I know it is tunable on this
> side. Usually this is fixed by a restart of squid, and everything is
> happy for a variable time frame. I have a tiny user base (on average 2
> people) since this is on a home system.

if restart helps, you apparently configured squid to eat too much memory.
note that cache_mem option only configures memory cache, squid may need
additional memory for cache indexes, buffers etc.

lower cache_mem to a more sane value, e.g. 128MB.

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Received on Sat Apr 25 2009 - 11:54:34 MDT

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